Children at Play: High Spirits for the Tango Festival (Kodomo asobi Tango no kishô)

「子供遊端午の気生」

Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1)
Artist Unknown, Japanese

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Catalogue Raisonné

Nagura, Etoki bakumatsu fûshi-ga to tennô (2007), #8; Kumon Kodomo Kenkyûjo, Ukiyo-e no kodomotachi/Children Depicted in Ukiyoe (1995), #170; Konishi, Nishiki-e bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 4 (1977), pp. 34-5 (complete diptych)

Dimensions

Vertical ôban diptych; 36 x 49.6 cm (14 3/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

Accession Number

11.42054a-b

Medium or Technique

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Not On View

Collections

Asia, Prints and Drawings

Classifications

Prints

Signed

Unsigned
無款

Markings

No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
No publisher's mark
改印：なし
彫師：なし
版元：なし

Provenance

By 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.

Credit Line

William Sturgis Bigelow Collection